Chinese Characters Starting with "ALL"

Every character has an origin. Discover the pictographs, myths, and history behind each Chinese character — with pinyin, stroke order, HSK level, and audio pronunciation.

gān

This character literally fuses 'tree' and 'sweet'

bǎi

Though it looks like 'white tree,' 柏 is actually

This rare botanical character hides a secret: its

pán

This ‘plate’ isn’t ceramic or plastic — it’s

This 'stop' character isn’t philosophical — it’

bǐng

This 'handle' character hides a royal secret: in a

líng

A botanical ghost character: visually built for tr

tuó

Though it looks like 'it' with wood attached, 柁 i

This 'oar' character hides a pulling motion in its

This rare tree-character hides a 2,200-year-old bo

gōu

This ‘bent’ character hides in plain sight — no

jiā

This 9-stroke character looks like 'wood + add'—a

xiāo

A 'wood' radical cradling a 'mouth' — not for spe

zhǐ

This 'hedge thorn' character looks like a tree wit

This 'male hemp' character hides a 3,000-year-old

píng

This ‘chess board’ character hides a secret: its

yùn

A phono-semantic ghost — 枟 looks like 'wood + cl

è

This rare character hides a 3,000-year-old 'X-ray'

ruì

This unassuming 8-stroke character hides China’s

dǒu

This unassuming 8-stroke character is the silent,

This 8-stroke character looks like a tree splittin

fāng

Though it looks like ‘square wood’ (方 + 木), 枋

àng

This ‘horse-tethering post’ character hides a br

chǒu

This six-stroke character looks like a minimalist

zhù

This unassuming 8-stroke character hides an ancien

chǒu

This 'handcuff' character is carved from wood — l

shū

This ‘kill’ character vanished from speech 2,000

Though obscure today, 杷 began as a vivid pictogra

chǔ

Its lower part looks like 古 (‘ancient’), but it

xiān

This 'shovel' character hides no pictograph—it’s

yǎo

This character’s 'double tree' shape doesn’t mea

gǎo

A sun blazing above a tree — this 8-stroke charac

miǎo

This 'treetip' character (8 strokes, 木 radical) e

This 7-stroke character names a vanished Zhou dyna

A 3,000-year-old pictograph of a notched wooden po

máng

This character looks like a roof’s backbone—and

This character looks like a tree with a 'younger b

biāo

This seven-stroke character isn’t just ‘spoon ha

xìng

This 'apricot' character hides a split fruit: 十+

Though just a humble low stool, 杌 hides a poetic